SFCE 250 - EcoJustice Education: An Introduction [GEGA]
An introduction to EcoJustice Education, the study of the cultural roots of ecological and social crises with a particular focus on what educators (P-12, community and university educators) can do to revitalize communities and stem the tide of ecological degradation and world-wide insecurities.
Credit 3 hrs May not be repeated for additional credit
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation
Class-Level Restriction Undergraduate standing
This course introduces undergraduate students to the field of EcoJustice Education, an approach that analyzes the increasing destruction of the world’s diverse ecosystems, languages, and cultures by the globalizing and ethnocentric forces of Western consumer culture. EcoJustice educators also study, support and teach about the ways that various cultures around the world actively resist these aspects of globalization by protecting and revitalizing their “commons,” that is the social practices and traditions, languages, and relationships with their local bio-regions, necessary to the sustainability of their communities. By emphasizing the commons (and its enclosure or privatization), EcoJustice prospective understand social justice to be inseparable from and even embedded in questions regarding ecological well-being. EcoJustice Education thus emphasizes educational reform at the public school, university and community levels as necessary to stem the tide of both cultural and ecological destruction.
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Equivalent Courses SOFD 250
Previously listed as SOFD 250 - EcoJustice Education: An Introduction
Updates Change to prefix 1/2018, effective Fall 2018; Approved for GEGA 9/2015, effective Winter 2016; New Course 1/2014, effective Summer 2014
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